02/12/13 09:53, intrigeri wrote: > arkmd wrote (02 Dec 2013 01:36:23 GMT) : >> intrigeri: >>> how annoying do you think it is if some of the Tor Browser >>> branding (mainly: window title bar, some text in "About Tor >>> Browser") is applied in Tails 0.22? I guess we could change this by >>> dropping the "Tor Browser's official .mozconfigs" patch. To be >>> honest, I'm a bit reluctant to change this *now* for 0.22 (frozen, >>> will be released in a bit more than a week), and I'm afraid we did >>> not think of this earlier in this release cycle, but I would be >>> happy to fix this for 0.23 if you think it's required. >> Is it to avoid confusion? > > No, it's to have our browser codebase as close as possible to the > regular Torbrowser's one. Each patch we drop has the potential to make > our browser look somewhat different on the Internet. > >> Thats a valid point, but... > >> A big "Tor Browser" title bar would attract more attention of the >> people standing around than it would help new Tails users. > >> Maybe stay with Iceweasel, or even change name and icons to Firefox, >> would provide more discretion to Tails users. > > Personally, I believe the Windows Camouflage mode is our best bet when > it comes to hiding one is using something weird. I guess we would take > patches that s/Tor Browser/Firefox/ or something in camouflage mode, > but I don't consider this as a valid line of reasoning as far as > non-camouflage mode is concerned.
Given how widely used Firefox is among Windows systems this looks like a good idea, especially since Iceweasel should be able to make a less suspicious impersonation of Firefox than it currently does of Internet Explorer. This thought did occur to me when developing this feature, but it has a catch... > If others think differently, I'm happy to read their thoughts and > perhaps change my mind :) My only objection is that this would make Tails potentially illegal for us to distribute. Mozilla's artwork is non-free, as is the use of the "Firefox" name in some sense [1], which are among the reasons for Iceweasel existing in the first place. [1] http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/trademarks/policy/ Cheers! _______________________________________________ tails-dev mailing list tails-dev@boum.org https://mailman.boum.org/listinfo/tails-dev
